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Deloitte's 'Jedi Move' on the Remote Work Chessboard
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Deloitte's 'Jedi Move' on the Remote Work Chessboard

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A screenshot of a tweet from user Chris Herd (@chris_herd) posted on June 19, 2021. The tweet discusses the strategic implications of consulting giant Deloitte's decision to adopt a 'remote-first forever' policy. The text, in white on a black background, argues this move is bigger than people realize because it pressures competitors like McKinsey, Bain, BCG, PWC, KPMG, and EY to follow suit or risk a talent exodus to Deloitte. Herd concludes by calling it a 'Jedi move' accompanied by a brain emoji, framing it as a masterful strategic play in the corporate world. For senior tech professionals, this resonates deeply as it mirrors the intense 'war for talent' in their own industry, where remote work policies became a critical competitive advantage for attracting and retaining top engineering talent, especially in the post-2020 landscape. It's a commentary on how work culture itself has become a key strategic battleground

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The 'Big Four' used to compete on who had the fanciest office. Now they compete on who has the most flexible policy for working from a couch in sweatpants
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The 'Big Four' used to compete on who had the fanciest office. Now they compete on who has the most flexible policy for working from a couch in sweatpants

  2. Anonymous

    Deloitte basically opened a PR titled “remote-first forever,” merged it straight to main, and now McKinsey et al. are stuck rebasing their billion-dollar office leases

  3. Anonymous

    Deloitte just executed the corporate equivalent of deploying to production on Friday at 5 PM and forcing all competitors to hotfix their HR policies over the weekend - except this time, the rollback button leads straight to a talent exodus

  4. Anonymous

    Deloitte essentially executed a zero-day exploit on the entire consulting industry's talent acquisition pipeline - while their competitors were still debating RTO policies in endless Zoom meetings, Deloitte deployed a remote-first strategy that turned every other firm's office mandate into a self-inflicted DDoS attack on their own recruiting funnel. Classic first-mover advantage: they didn't just change their policy, they changed the entire market's Nash equilibrium

  5. Anonymous

    Deloitte just git cherry-picked the entire consulting talent pool - now rivals are stuck rebasing their legacy office monoliths

  6. Anonymous

    Deloitte turned “remote-first” into a talent supply‑chain attack: flip one feature flag and every competitor’s retention SLO starts paging

  7. Anonymous

    Deloitte set remote_first=true in the org config and instantly invalidated competitors’ retention caches - the most effective recruiting pipeline I’ve seen without touching an ATS

  8. @paul_thunder 5y

    Can someone translate this to human language?

    1. @zhuralol 5y

      Ебучий консалтинг скоро перейдет на удаленку потому что делойт это сделал или потеряет все кадры (они уйдут в делойт)

      1. @emil_wislowski 5y

        can someone translate this to human language now?

        1. @sylfn 5y

          yes. fucking consulting will go remote because Deloitte did it or they will lose everyone (they'll go to Deloitte)

  9. @paul_thunder 5y

    Or at least to Russian. Пожалуйста/please

  10. @emil_wislowski 5y

    thanks 😉

  11. Max 5y

    My girlfriend worked for deloitte. They had too little work places in the office, and no fixed seating. So every morning you were hunting a new keyboard, screen and mouse. It was rediculous. From that perspective it’s a clever move. Also the costs for the office go down, because now the employees pay.

    1. @RiedleroD 5y

      It's a smart move for employees as well since they don't have to drive to the office every fucking morning. It's a win-win for everyone except those micro-managing assholes.

      1. @arpanetus 5y

        micro-managing big 4 u wanted to say

    2. @arpanetus 5y

      big 4 and fmcg are retarded places to work usually

      1. @yury_tikhoglaz 5y

        Working for big4 firm for 5 years, joined as software development guy, ended as forensic manager. Survived just by the miracle.

        1. @arpanetus 5y

          god saved u man

          1. @yury_tikhoglaz 5y

            Definitely. Now thinking about escape from this asylum but no one wants a developer with big4 experience

            1. @RiedleroD 5y

              what the fuck is big4

              1. @yury_tikhoglaz 5y

                Four biggest networks of consulting and audit firms. E&Y, Delloite, KPMG,PwC

                1. @RiedleroD 5y

                  ah

            2. dev_meme 5y

              Like, for real? But why?

              1. @yury_tikhoglaz 5y

                Just imagine pm guy who has an application from someone who has a manager position in big 4. “This guy will eat me”. And no comments from my side that I’m tired of management will work. And other part just afraid of the word “forensic”.

  12. Deleted Account 5y

    I would pay less to get an office

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